Daniel Hope
Daniel Hope is now in his first season as Intendant & Artistic Director of Switzerland’s Menuhin Festival & Academy Gstaad, having been unanimously elected to the role, in view of his 21 years of curatorial experience and deep musical associations with Gstaad and the late Yehudi Menuhin himself. In this new post, Hope will preside…
The present season marks Daniel Hope’s ninth with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra (ZCO), where he took over from Sir Roger Norrington as Music Director in 2016. After an extensive German tour this February, Hope and the conductor-less ensemble conclude their season together at the Zurich Tonhalle, where, alongside works by Elgar and Virgil Thomson, he…
Last year, Daniel Hope appeared with a quintet from San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra (NCCO) on Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, the live weekly Netflix talk show, and this spring he leads the orchestra from the violin on two Bay Area tours. At concerts in Berkeley (March 13), San Francisco (March 14), and Belvedere…
A dedicated chamber artist, Daniel Hope gives three chamber performances in the States this spring. He reunites with cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han in Kansas City for Haydn’s Piano Trio in A, Beethoven’s First Piano Trio, and Dvořák’s beloved “Dumky” (March 6). They repeat this program two days later at Wolf Trap, where…
Since November 1, 2025, Daniel Hope has been steering the artistic future of the Menuhin Festival Gstaad as its intendant. With his first program, entitled Family Matters, he is deliberately building on the founding idea of the Festival: 70 years ago, Yehudi Menuhin brought friends and companions from all over the world to the picturesque…
On November 1, 2025, Daniel Hope took over as the newly elected Intendant & Artistic Director of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy. He succeeds Christoph Müller, who leaves Gstaad at the end of the 2025 festival after 24 successful years at the helm. Daniel Hope, also Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and…
